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The goal of this article is to give you a few ideas of how you can use the new Facebook Timeline to effectively market your music to your fans.

On March 30th 2012 Facebook's Timeline feature was automatically rolled out to Facebook pages however you had the chance to test out the features on your pages before it went live.

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As with profiles you have the option to add a cover photo to your Facebook page, this should be something unique and compelling that ...

The following Music Producer Tip will give you some tips on how you can become a successful music producer.

There are a million people out there trying to be music producers and get into the music industry but unfortunately (or fortunately for you) success is not for everyone, here are some tips from Dame Taylor (@ayoDame) to give you a head start in your music career.

The number one thing you need is Patience; you have got to have patience. The other two are Consistency ...

The following DJ Tip will advise you on how you can put a great DJ set list together to get the crowd going whether at a club or a mobile DJ gig.

For a DJ set to have a good climax and a good break off with any genre and any type of music you want to:

Pick Songs That You REALLY Want To Use
Go through the records, cd's, mp3's or whatever and find the music that you want to use.
You might have over a thousand songs but just choose the ones that you really ...

The following article will give you opinions from recording artists, and music industry insiders on whether it's best to sign to a Major, Indie or No Label at all.



Sully (Godsmack) - Recording Artist
"I think major and independent labels both have their advantages, I wouldn't always suggest to just have a major label seek you out because I think that there's a lot of indie labels that do a great job and are more hungry to break talent, and with us it was ...

The following Atomix Virtual DJ Tutorial will teach you how to mix tracks together using the Crossfader in Virtual DJ.



The first thing that you want to do is load in the tracks that you want to mix.
- Start up Virtual DJ
- Go down to the browser at the bottom of Virtual DJ
- Browse to your music folder and select the songs you want to mix.
- Drag each track into an available deck.

For best results make sure that the tracks ...

The following Pro Tools Tutorial will give you tips and advice on how to optimize your Mac to make Pro Tools perform better.



Keeping your Mac in top shape when using real time applications such as Pro Tools is essential for a great session.

These optimizations can solve potential error messages resulting from background system activity. Performing these optimizations prior to your session will help achieve maximum performance in Pro Tools.
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The following article will teach you a method of mixing in FL Studio, so that you can mix your beats and tracks better. Example files included.

This article was written by and examples provided by Tucky Ent.. Check out his music on SoundCloud, add him on Facebook, follow him on Twitter.

First off, I would like to thank www.CrazyPellas.net for giving me the opportunity to be heard by thousands and making a place people can go to for anything to do with music.
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The following Sony ACID Pro Tutorial will take you through How to Work with MIDI Controller Data in ACID Pro.



MIDI information contains much more than just the note data that we've been working with up to now. Sophisticated MIDI controller devices have settings and controls with which you can bend the pitch of the plague note, modulate the pitch of a note at specific intervals, manipulate how a controller key reacts to pressure you apply to it after the original touch ...

The following Propellerhead Reason Tutorial will take you through how to master the Blocks feature of Propellerhead Reason and Record.



Let’s make a song using the Blocks feature available in Reason and Record.

Blocks is a pattern based way of working that makes arranging, brainstorming, experimentation and song writing much more productive.

I'll start by creating a new song in Record. Then I'll switch from song mode to block mode.
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The following Ableton Live Tutorial will take you through working with the Session View and using it to get the most out of Ableton Live.



In this tutorial we will take a look at working with the Session View.

Understanding the Session View is essential to getting the most out of Live so in this tutorial we'll take a look at how the Session View can be used for idea creation, improvisation, live performance and DJing.

You can think of the ...

The following Serato Scratch Live Tutorial will take you through how to use the Auto Gain feature of Serato Scratch Live correctly.



In the Playback tab of the Setup screen in Scratch Live there is an option to Auto Gain which will bring up the volume of some of your tracks to a consistent level.

For songs with overview spill check this if you want to use the calculated auto gain value while playing songs.

There is also a target gain drop-down ...

The following FL Studio Tutorial will take you through how to create songs in the FL Studio Playlist Editor.



In this tutorial you'll learn how to create arrangements from your FL loops and audio.

Let's load up a playlist from an existing song and have a look at it.

The playlist window contains a sequence of patterns and audio as well as clip tracks that will form the complete song structure.

The horizontal dimension in the ...

The following music marketing article will take you through step-by-step on how you can set up a Google+ Artist / Band Page to market your music.

On November 7th 2011 Google announced Google+ Pages for artists, bands and brands to have their own page on Google+. Before now if you created a band/brand profile you could expect that your profile be terminated.

Let's get started on how you can create your artists / band Google+ page.

1. Login to your Google+ ...